AT FIVE IN THE AFTERNOON

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Status: Completed

Director(s): Samira Makhmalbaf

Long synopsis : In bomb-scarred Kabul, a devout old coachman searches for a place for his family to shelter and waits for his lost son to return from Pakistan. The coachman's daughter dreams of becoming Afghanistan's future president.
The family moves endlessly. With no money for medicine, their baby child grows dangerously ill. Terrible news arrives from Pakistan. Despairing, the coachman leaves Kabul, taking what remains of his family to seek a holy refuge far from the city...